cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1094374

SimilarWeb has just released traffic estimates for June. According to these estimates, Reddit’s traffic has seen a 3.36% month-over-month decrease.

For comparison, here’s how traffic has changed for other popular social networking websites:

Source: https://www.similarweb.com/website/reddit.com/#overview

  • icydefiance@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    You’re right to compare it to the other sites. It looks like people are dropping social media in general, and a lot of reddit’s losses could be caused by that instead of the admins pissing people off.

    That said, I think all of those losses are pretty huge, considering it’s only a month. Extrapolate those numbers to a year and they become more like 10-30% depending on the site, which is pretty devastating.

    If those are steady losses, some of those platforms may not exist in 5 years. I think that’s a crazy thought.

    But yeah, I agree with you, Reddit didn’t lose that much more than the other sites, so I don’t think this shows a giant exodus just because of because of the api changes.